VEA Vice Chair Nell Minow is quoted in the Washington Post story about shareholder proposals on gender pay equity. The SEC has directed Amazon to include the proposal in their proxy.

Nell Minow, vice chair of the governance consulting firm ValueEdge Advisers, says that activists "want to ask a question to which the only good answer is 'we'll fix it.' " With technology companies under increasing pressure to hire and retain more women, "you can't have a better one" than a proposal that targets the pay gap, she says.